Agree with the others posters. If there is no will, the wife gets everything. What the husband stated verbally as to what he wanted to happen to the house after his death, has no bearing in law. He can not cut his wife out of his will 100%. But if he wanted to leave a share of the home to his siblings, he should have made a Will saying so. If he didn't, his wife gets everything, and she has no legal obligation whatsoever to give it to anyone else. If it turns out that the husband did not own the home, it is possible that he and his wife may claim squatters rights to it if they lived in it for at least 12 unbroken, uncontested years. She may need to get herself to a solicitor if that is the case, as odds she won't be able to handle a claim like that by herself.